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Twitter: lecture-hall resource or a waste of students' time?https://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2012/apr/20/twitter-internet
Lecturers are encouraging students to get tweeting – what have they let themselves in for?<p>Most tutors would go mad if they caught you fiddling on your phone in the lecture hall, but students on media-related degrees are being told to do exactly that.</p><p>As part of the broadcast journalism programme at the <a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/" title="">University of Leeds</a>, we're told to sign up to Twitter – we're even given a hashtag (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23leedsbjs">#leedsbjs</a>) to help us interact.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2012/apr/20/twitter-internet">Continue reading...</a>TwitterMediaInternetStudentsHigher educationEducationJournalism educationLecturersTechnologyFri, 20 Apr 2012 07:55:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2012/apr/20/twitter-internetPhotograph: Iain Masterton/AlamyAre we all under Twitter's spell? Photograph: Iain Masterton/AlamyPhotograph: Iain Masterton/AlamyAre we all under Twitter's spell? Photograph: Iain Masterton/AlamyRosanna Pound-Woods2012-04-20T07:55:00Z